Yehonadov Berlinger

Yehonadov Berlinger (29 October 1937-22 August 2014) was a member of the Knesset of Israel in 1968-1972 and from 1980-1982 as a member of the Israeli Labor Party.

Biography
Yehonadov Berlinger was born on 29 October 1937 in Lubny in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) to a Ukrainian-Jewish family. Berlinger's father worked as a carpenter and his mother was a dairy farmer. Berlinger's father died in an accident in 1939, and his mother was killed by Nazi Germany when they invaded the USSR in 1941. Berlinger was taken care of by his neighbors, a Russian Orthodox family, and was passed off as their son. After the end of World War II, Berlinger decided to go to the new Jewish homeland of Israel, declared independent in 1948. Berlinger served with the Israeli Defense Force for fifteen years before becoming a politician affiliated with the Israeli Labor Party. Berlinger's Soviet roots influenced his political choices, and he wanted to secure the rights of the everyman in society. From 1968 to 1972 and from 1980 to 1982 he was a member of the Knesset, and he left politics in 2008. He died in 2014 of natural causes at the age of 77.